ENDViolenceENDviolence #ItStartsWithMe campaign aims at raising awareness about different forms of violence, including physical, emotional, sexual and child marriage. Join hands and take a step to #ENDviolence against children. I can #ENDviolence because #ItStartsWithMe

Poo2LooClose to 594 million which is 48 percent of population in India practices open defecation. That's half the population dumping over 65 million kilos of poo out there every day. If this poo continues to be let loose on us, there will be no escaping the stench of life threatening infections, diseases and epidemics.

Baap Wali Baat
The Baap Wali Baat is a part of the #ItStartsWithMe campaign by UNICEF India and has been created to empower people to educate their daughters. It is time to #ENDviolence against children, including child marriage.
The objective is to challenge people’s thinking about issues like violence against girls, prote

Race To Good Health
Daily supervised group handwashing with soap before mid-day meals session is a life skill-based behaviour change approach, where all students as a group wash their hands with soap at least once a day, before meals. This group activity in school is designed to reinforce the habit of good hygiene behaviour, and uses the positiv

India Is Now Polio Free
India has not reported any case of polio since a two-year old girl got polio paralysis on 13 January 2011 in Howrah district of West Bengal. India’s victory over polio paves the way for polio-free certification of the South East Asia region of WHO.
India overcame huge challenges, with a strong commitment that match

Immunising The Unreached - Mission IndradhanushClose to 8400 sessions are planned in 14 districts of Bihar under Mission Indradhanush to make sure every child in the State is immunized against vaccine preventable diseases

Priyanka Chopra inspires teenage girls to aim high with UNICEFBollywood Actress, International Recording Artist and UNICEF India Ambassador Priyanka Chopra met with young women in Chandrapur, India, to mark International Youth Day[1] and to witness how their lives are being transformed through the Building Young Futures programme, which is run in partnership with Barclays UK. Priyanka Cho

UNICEF celebrates a “Polio Free India” with Amitabh BachchanTo mark India’s landmark achievement of being certified polio-free, UNICEF celebrated with megastar Amitabh Bachchan who as the UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador for Polio, has played a critical role in mobilizing mass support for India’s polio immunization campaign. The evening paid tribute to the Vaccinators and Mobilizers who worke

Group Hand Washing Facilities in Schools
This manual is an attempt to:
• Showcase different innovative approaches of retrofitting and augmentation of existing WASH infrastructure into handwashing stations.
• Explore options for undertaking new construction of handwashing stations based on the existing situations and designs.
• Help the selse
This manual is an attempt to:
• Showcase different innovative approaches of retrofitting and augmentation of existing WASH infrastructure into handwashing stations.
• Explore options for undertaking new construction of handwashing stations based on the existing situations and designs.
• Help the school administration and Education Department to adopt possible solutions for setting up the handwashing stations specific to the situations in their schools.
• Strengthen the focus on WASH issues, especially hygiene through integration of group handwashing with soap in every school on a daily basis, before the MDM are served.

National Effective Vaccine Management Assessment
The National Universal Immunization program of India is one of the largest programs of its kind in the World covering almost 27 million children in a year. Cold chain and Vaccine Logistics Management is the most crucial component for successful implementation of the program.
UNICEF has been a key partner in the streng

WASH in Schools in India Commitments and Actions
Wash in in Schools in India - Commitments and Actions
An adaptation of Raising Clean Hands
WASH in Schools in India: Commitments and Actions” is an adaptation of the UNICEF Global document, “Raising Even More Clean Hands: Advancing Health, Learning and Equity through WASH in Schools” launched

Piloting Basic Income Transfers in Madhya Pradesh, India - Full Report
The Madhya Pradesh Unconditional Cash Transfers Project (MPUCT) is an innovative pilot testing the potential that such transfers hold for addressing vulnerabilities faced by low income Indians. It is the first time that unconditional cash transfers (UCTs) have been subject to such a detailed assessment in India. The results o